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IMPROVEMENT IN FENCE.

SIMEON P. TUTTLEQOF DEc'ATUniMIcHIeAN Letters Patet No. 60,286, datedDecember 4, 1 866. 1

SPECIFICATION- TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: w

Be it known that I, S. P. TUTTLE, of Decatur in the county of I'anr`Buren, and State of Michigan, have i `1` invented certain new and usefulimprovements in Fences; and I do hereby declarethat the following is afull, t clear, and exact description of the same, reference being.: hadto the accompanying drawings `and to the `letters p of reference markedthereon.

In the annexed drawing, making part of this specication, A and Brepresent" twsectio'ns or'pannels of y a portable fence. The boards fwhich these pannels are formed project aboutsiii` inches `ateach endbeyond 1 the battons E E, which bind them together. C represents thefence post. y This post has two or more staples i driven into it, asseen at D D. The two pannels are placed against the posits, with theprojecting ends of the boards of which they are formed lying againsteach other, and are held to the post by means of the staples D D, theends of the pannels resting on said staples. F represents a cap',l whichis pivoted to the top of `the postw t C, as seen atX. By turning thiscap, as shown in the gure, the pannels are prevented from being raisedout t l of the staples, and can only be drawn out endwise. 'The fencepannels could be held together by thelstaples alone,

so long as they were not raised up; but by the use of the cap they areheld more securely "imposition, and cannot be raised without removingsaid cap. With this arrangement it will readilybe seen that by simplyturning the i cap any pannel can be removed for the purpose of making agate. The L-shaped staples orscrewsD Dean be turned one-quarter aroundfor the extraction of a single rail and insertion of one instead, shouldit become" neeessary, without taking o the entire pannel. It will beobserved that each ofthe pannels,`A or B, of themselves,

form a portable gate. A i l Having thus fully described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatengis- The postC, provided with the L-shaped screws or staples D D and cap Ih'when``used in combination `with`-` t the fence sections A or B,"constructedas described, to form a portable fence, when arranged and used as and 1p for the purposes set forth. l A s evidence 'that lI claim theforegoing, I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnessest` l SIMEON P. ll'JfllLlil` Witnesses:

'W. S. DUNNING, S. M. RAwsoN.

